PLAYS
Santa’s Baby
Boston Theatre Marathon, Finalist, 2002
The Bridge Theatre Company, Production, Boston, 2003
The Root People
Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Workshop Reading, Valdez, 2004
Moving Arts Theatre Festival, Semi-Finalist, Los Angeles, 2012
Boog City Poetry Festival, Workshop Production, NYC, 2012
Revolutions
Monroe Community College, Workshop Production, 2006
The Next Thing: After Eugene O’Neill’s Before Breakfast
Geva Theatre Center/Writers and Books, Reading, Rochester, 2013
Relativity
Subversive Shorts Theatre Festival, Finalist, Buffalo, 2013
ObamAmerica Festival, Over Here Theatre Company, Finalist, London, 2014
They Were Real
Geva Theatre Center/Writers and Books, Reading, Rochester, 2014
The Cell
MuCCC New Play Festival, Reading, Out of Pocket Productions, Rochester, 2014
Regional Writers Showcase, Reading, Geva Theatre Center, Rochester, 2014
Earth Matters on Stage Festival, Semi-Finalist, Reno, 2014
Festival of New Theatre, Reading, Geva Theatre Center, Rochester, 2014
– Interview, Geva Theatre Center
Litter
Girl Play Festival, Reading, The Women’s Theatre Project, Fort Lauderdale, 2014
FourPlay, co-authored with Straw Mat Writers
The First Niagara Fringe Festival, Production, MuCCC, Rochester, 2014
– Feature, Rochester Magazine, Reprinted in Democrat and Chronicle
New York Plays
Out of Pocket Productions, Production, MuCCC, Rochester, 2014
– Feature, Democrat and Chronicle
Shitty Lives, co-authored with Straw Mat Writers
The First Niagara Fringe Festival, Production, MuCCC, Rochester, 2015
Swans
New Plays New Voices, Reading, MuCCC, Rochester, 2017
Geva Theatre Center‘s Fielding Stage, produced by Straw Mat Writers and Method Machine, Rochester, 2018
– Interview, WXXI
– Interview, FOX Rochester
IGNITE of Greater Rochester, all-deaf production, Rochester, 2019
Southwest Theatre Productions, Semi-Finalist, Austin, 2020
Ghosts
Everyone’s Theatre Company, Production, Rochester, 2017
Something Else
Regional Writers Showcase, Reading, Geva Theatre Center, Rochester, 2019
Southwest Theatre Productions, Semi-Finalist, Austin, 2020
What Moves at the Bottom
Commissioned by Alleyway Theatre as part of Currents: 716, Buffalo, 2020
OTHER CREATIVE WRITING
To Pin the Tired Home, excerpts
Monroe Community College, Skunk Hour, 2005
“Against the Floor,” “Everything Gray,” All the Words (excerpt)
Writers and Books, Genesee Reading Series, 2005
All the Words (excerpt)
Nox Cocktail, Rochester Book Launch, 2016
“A Promise,” “Rain,” “That Woman,” “Manhattanhenge”
Words on the Verge, Brockport, 2016
– About the Event: “Our May event was magical. Of course. Because good, hard, moving words entrance an audience. It’s deep spell work, heart work, community building. Thank you Maria Brandt for joining us. And thanks to the lovely community that continues to support Words on the Verge.”
All the Words (excerpt)
Pete’s Candy Store, Brooklyn Book Launch, 2016
“The Portal”
Writers and Books Get Lit Pub Crawl, Roc Brewing Company, 2017
Two-Year College Creative Writing Caucus, Tampa, 2018
“Blades”
Words on the Verge, Brockport, 2018
“The Kidnapper”
Writers and Books The Ladder Reading Series, Genesee Brew House, Rochester, 2018
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
In Short, What is the New Woman? A Study in Culture and Representation
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, 2003
“Something to Think About”: Negotiating Loss in A Farewell to Arms
Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, 2009
The Sixth Act: Integrating Drama, the Community, and the Classroom
League of Innovation Conference, 2010
Greater Rochester Consortium of Women and Gender Studies
National Women’s Studies Association Conference, 2010, 2011
“The Man in the Family”: Staging Gender in Waiting for Lefty and American Social Protest Theatre
Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, 2011
